The time was three days later.

That is, on the twentieth day of April,

Twelve o'clock sharp.

When Higashinohara got up from a coffee shop on the side of the road near White Swan Harbor, his eyes inadvertently swept to two people behind him who were wearing white robes and wearing white scarves wrapped around their heads, and they were dressed a little strangely, and they happened to pay the bill, and followed him out of the coffee shop.

Higashinohara is not persecuted paranoia.

I haven't done anything out of the ordinary in the three days I've been in Barton County, and of course I won't see two people coming out with me and think that the other party is coming for me.

In fact, during the three days he spent in Barton County waiting for the knife to be retrieved, he really felt the popularity of Barton County in the "One Capital and Six Counties" in the Upper Kyoto City Circle.

Even when he went out to buy a meal from the hotel, he could meet several human tourists from different countries on the street, dressed much stranger than the two behind him.

In the past three days, Higashinohara, who has seen a lot of exotic scenery, even if he sees people running naked on the streets of Bartonshire, I am afraid that he will calmly regard her as a kind of performance art.

It has to be said that in the area of White Swan Harbour in Barton County, those celestials who treat humans as monkeys will hardly interfere with anything in this acre and three points of land.

It's no wonder that so many tourists flock to breathe in the wonderful air of the Upper Kyoto City Circle every year, even though it is only on the edge of the Upper Kyoto City Circle.

However, after walking out of this roadside coffee shop in White Swan Harbor, Higashinohara had just walked two streets, and the scene of the intersection not far in front of him made him frown slightly.

I saw a group of black-robed enforcement team members, who appeared at the intersection of White Swan Harbor in full armor at some point, with a sharp gaze like an eagle falcon checking every passerby.

What's the situation?

During the three days that Higashinohara was in White Swan Harbor, he had never seen those black-robed figures.

- It almost made him forget in his mind that this was the closest city of Upper Kyoto to the Adjudication Division.

It's just why those black robes suddenly appeared at the intersection of White Swan Harbor today?

"Why are the people from the Adjudication Division here?"

"I guess something happened, right?"

"Haven't you heard? How many places in Barton County have been wiped out? ”

"Ah, this? Who is so mad? Kill them all? ”

"I heard they're all missing."

"Then what kind of door is it that is destroyed..."

"That's why these black robes are so nervous, I heard that there are also county guards in Barton County."

“......”

Higashinohara, who had keen senses, listened to the whispers of pedestrians on the streets around him, and his face couldn't help but change slightly.

Such an unexpected event, I don't know whether his trip to Barton County is good or bad.

And now, these black robes are as indifferent as eagles and dogs, and although the tourists passing by are accustomed to the freedom and comfort of White Swan Harbor these days, they have long been accustomed to this scene in front of them in the countries they have lived in for so many years.

After a short period of noise, everyone was silent and quietly cooperating with the black-robed enforcement team on the street.

Higashinohara glanced in that direction.

From this road, it happened to be the road that led to Tanjuro's house in the White Swan Port, but he turned around and walked into a dark alley beside him.

In the three days that he waited for the knife to be picked up in the White Swan Harbor, he had already memorized the routes and streets around the port through the map.

He chose this dark alley to make a few detours, but he was still able to reach Tanjuro Kamado from the back door.

You must know that although Higashinohara's identity is now flawless, there is no real perfect disguise in this world, and the wisest choice is naturally to avoid unnecessary interrogation by the enemy.

......

Although there is a detour in the dark alley, Higashinohara avoids the monitoring and lets go of the speed.

It only took about ten minutes, and he arrived at the back door of the small courtyard of Tanjuro's house in the White Swan Harbor Stove Gate earlier than the originally agreed time for picking up the knife.

However, just as he was about to step out of the dark alley, Higashinohara's heart suddenly moved slightly, and the steps he took back again.

Squeak!

The back door of the small courtyard was pushed open, and the footsteps of three people came.

meanwhile

A slightly angry scolding came to his ears.

"Rubbish! Can't you catch a blacksmith? The man in the middle said to the two next to him in a cold tone.

The two of them were angrily reprimanded, and their arms, faces, and clothes were burned to varying degrees, and bursts of hot pain struck, and they said indignantly:

"Made! Who knew that kid had awakened his fire-based ability and attacked us from behind while he was taking his sword. ”

"What about the Heavenly Cloud Sword?"

The man in the middle said with a cold look in his eyes, "Vice Captain Pelos loves swords like an idiot, and he finally got Hawke. The news that Yudel's supreme blade has been cut off and reforged here, if we go ashore early this time and find nothing, you should know the consequences. ”

Hearing the words "Pelos", the two suddenly appeared of the man who had been drinking and sleeping on the boat all day with his sword in his hand.

It is conceivable that if they mess up this matter, it will be tantamount to losing each other's wives.

Why is this a little wrong?

That's what it means, anyway.

The two of them felt a slight chill in their hearts.

One of them suddenly thought of something, hurried up and said, "Captain, although that cunning blacksmith ran fast, his wife and children just came back after he left, and they didn't have time to take them with them, and now they have been transferred and controlled by us." ”

The other person also reacted and said viciously, "That's right, he let us lose the wife of Vice Captain Pelos, then we will lose his wife and children, we left a note in the basement, the other party will definitely come back, and we will not be able to obediently present the big fast knife when the time comes." ”

The captain in the middle heard the words of the two, and was slightly stunned before snorting coldly.

"Even if you still have some brains, but now we don't have time to delay, let's put aside the matter of Deputy Captain Pelos for a while, don't forget that the guys in the Western Army are still waiting for us, go and do the captain's business first."

Hearing the word "captain", both of them also tightened their faces, and quickly nodded:

"Yes, yes, it's important, it's important."

Speaking of this, one of them suddenly said, "What if that cunning blacksmith doesn't care about his wife and children?" ”

The captain shrugged his shoulders when he heard this, and said gloomily, "He doesn't care, then we don't have to care, after finishing the business, the woman left an explanation for Captain Pelos, and the child will be thrown into the sea to feed the fish." ”

After finishing speaking, the three of them seemed to be in a hurry, and immediately left the back door of the small courtyard in a hurry.

In the shadows of the dark alley, Higashinohara slowly walked out, glanced at the backs of the three people, and then looked at the dead silence of the courtyard.

There were still five minutes before the knife was taken, but he clearly didn't need to go in again.

Judging from the words of these three people just now, they should be a group of pirates in the Western Sea.

Among them, the captain's strength is quite strong, and the preliminary estimate is that he should be the same as himself under normal conditions, and he should be a seventh-order absolute ability.

A captain is an absolute capable...

There is no doubt that the origin behind this group of pirates who suddenly appeared is definitely not small.

Higashinohara didn't kill it directly just now, and it was precisely because of this concern that he had this concern.

Tanjuro Kamado's wife and children were moved by them, and now they don't know where they are held.

If he had taken the liberty of making a move just now, it would have been good to be able to control the scene instantly.

But if there is the slightest mistake and accident and the other party sends back the news, then the other party will inevitably think that he is the helper of Tanjuro Kamado, which will be quite unfavorable to the situation of his wife and children.

However, listening to the [Tiancong Cloud Sword] mentioned in the other party's words, if I remember correctly, it should also be the work of the twelve works of the Kyoto Supreme Great Quick Sword.

It's no wonder that Tanjuro Kamado will be found.

And the other party didn't mention his [Big Thousand Bird Ten Words] and [Phoenix Double Blade] in his words just now, it seems that the time point coincides, and he was affected by the pond fish.

That's a little tricky now.

Where is Tanjuro Kamado?

He had absolutely no idea.

The two sides had only met once, and he didn't know if Tanjuro Kamado would exchange the [Tiancong Cloud Sword] for his wife and children after seeing the note in the basement.

The only clue Higashinohara has now is the three pirates who just left.

But he was willing to believe that the other side would come back.

After all, it was a man who had awakened the blue high-risk ability of talent sequence 31 [Red Flame], but still worked hard to marry a fisherman's daughter and fished here to survive.

Well, keep up.

These thoughts are complicated,

In fact, it's just a flash of light.

Higashinohara looked at the back of the street that had not disappeared, and made a decision in his heart.

As long as you follow these three people, you can find Tanjuro Kamado's wife and children along the way, and it is very likely to wait for Tanjuro Kamado to appear again.

When the time comes, you can help.

In the depths of his heart, Higashinohara had no intention of purifying the world, and he didn't have the ability to take care of it.

I just don't appear in front of my eyes.

Higashinohara has always adhered to the principle of a heart.

That is, evil is beheaded.

......

An hour passed in the blink of an eye.

It was a quarter past one o'clock in the afternoon.

The Mithril Society's five-member executive team lurks in a warehouse building in White Swan Harbor, with a rusty door and old cement bags piled up inside.

It is estimated that it is left over from the construction of the White Swan Port Wharf, and the tip of the nose is filled with the pungent smell of cement and rust.

"Is this the place of the rally?"

One of the enforcement team looked at the old-fashioned wall clock on the warehouse again, and couldn't help but ask with some hesitation.

Since eight o'clock in the morning, they have been squatting here for more than five hours, and their lunch at noon is all bread and energy bars, but the large warehouse building of Kenuo is silent, and there is not even a ghost shadow.

Hearing the doubts of the team members, the vice-captain Filina couldn't help but glance at the grim side face of Kairutu, the president of the Mithril Society, and found that the other party didn't mean anything to explain.

She couldn't help but feel a little worried in her heart.

If Kairutu misjudges, it doesn't just mean they've wasted a day here.

At the same time, it also means that the field mission assigned by them this time by the Condor Bureau has completely failed.

Click!

The second-hand hand of the old-fashioned wall clock on the wall turns slowly.

Just as I turned around,

It's about to reach one o'clock in the hour.

There seemed to be a roar of speedboat engines on the sea surface of the wharf diagonally opposite the port warehouse building.

Someone's coming?

Everyone in the execution team was immediately refreshed.

But in the blink of an eye,

The tightly closed warehouse was pushed open again, and a long-lost light shone in from the outside, accompanied by a dense sound of footsteps.

Filina, who had hidden behind the cement bag in the corner in advance, suppressed the excitement in her heart, raised her head slightly and glanced at it, and then quickly shrank back.

"Are you coming?" Someone next to me asked.

"Here we are." Filina nodded.

"How many came?"

"A lot."

“......”

In fact, there are more than that.

When the wall clock on the wall pointed to a quarter of a quarter, a dense crowd of human heads suddenly poured outside.

Some of these people came by speedboat from the sea, some by boat from the Bama Canal on one side, and still others in vehicles without license plates.

And these people who arrived at the warehouse through various modes of transportation met each other, without any eye contact with each other, and all poured into the warehouse with their heads down.

When the dense footsteps gradually stopped, the factory building suddenly fell silent.

In the corner, Mithril and the others, hiding behind a pile of cement bags, looked at each other.

It's like the middle of the night, and someone opens your door and walks in.

You clutch to the quilt and hide under the covers, but the room is so eerily quiet that only your heartbeat remains.

What's the situation?

The frowning vice-captain Filina took a deep breath and subconsciously wanted to look up again.

Unexpectedly, at this time, there was a sound of footsteps in the direction of the warehouse door.

Compared with the previous dense and chaotic footsteps, this time the footsteps were not hurried or slow, and it was very rhythmic.

From the quiet atmosphere in the factory,

The crowd hiding behind the cement bag can even automatically conjure up a picture in their minds.

- The latecomers entered the warehouse, and everyone quietly saluted them.

Who will come?

......

And that's exactly what happened.

At this time, in the crowd that had just poured into the warehouse, Higashinohara, who was dressed in black, was wearing a mask, sunglasses, and a cap.

This is a very abrupt and eye-catching outfit on the street outside, but it is not conspicuous at all in the factory at this moment.

Because all around Higashinohara, both men and women, old and young, hide part of their true faces in their own ways.

- It seems that they also know very well that a gathering like this today can never be placed in the sun.

Higashinohara couldn't help but glance at the three people who were half-covering their chins with the square scarves around their necks in front of them.

That's right, those three were the three pirates that Higashinohara followed all the way from Tanjuro Kamado's house, but for some unknown reason, they also blended in with these people.

Thinking of this, Higashinohara's eyes couldn't help but look at the group of people who had just walked into the warehouse again, and the familiar dark green coat made his eyes squint slightly.

Even if Barton County is in the middle of nowhere, it is at the foot of the heavenly people in the upper Kyoto city area.

If his current guess about the identity of the other party is correct, then these dark green coats that can be active in the upper Kyoto city area.

There is no doubt that it is naturally the strongest "Western Army" among the five armies in the southeast, northwest, and northwest of the Dawn Revolutionary Army.

Speaking of which, even if some people regard it as a dangerous element of instability, Higashinohara has no ill feelings towards the revolutionary army in this world.

But the Dawn Revolutionary Army is an exception.

No matter what kind of grand slogans that group of people shouted in their mouths, but what this group of people have been doing under the nose of Higashinohara for this period of time.

As always,

A disgusting abomination that never disappoints.

It's just that these people around him are standing quietly in place like him, half-hiding their faces?

What kind of people are they?

Why are you here at this time?

Why did the pirates get involved?

Higashinohara squinted slightly,

These questions are in my mind.

But before he could figure it out, he was among the people in dark green coats who had just walked into this gloomy warehouse under the gaze of countless people.

I saw the man who was tall, with a slightly upturned collar and a scar on the right side of his face, faintly revealing a cold aura.

Suddenly raised his hand and patted it.

Soon, the person behind him moved a moving blackboard out of nowhere.

The grim-faced man turned around and wrote three large blood-colored characters on the blackboard with a very fast speed in red chalk that seemed to be soaked in blood.

【Allies】

X！

！

A huge red cross stamped the words "Allies" as if torn apart.

The man casually raised his hand and pressed it down, and the moving blackboard instantly rotated to one side.

This time

The man lifted the blood-red chalk again,

On that moving blackboard, he wrote three completely unfamiliar words that had never appeared in history or in any dictionary.

【Federal States】

Click.

The man threw away the chalk when he finished writing.

He looked calmly around at the members of the delegations whose eyes widened in astonishment and dazedness, and his jaw couldn't help but rise slightly.

He was satisfied.

I am very satisfied with the shock I bringed.

"I have a dream."

Suddenly, the grim-faced man slowly spoke, and said the first words he said after entering this warehouse building, which instantly attracted the attention of everyone present.

.....。